Marta, left, makes a move to get past an Atlanta defender as she scores a goal in the second half of Sunday?s match. The Flash won, 2-0, at Sahlen?s Stadium.

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The Western New York Flash raised a trophy in the middle of Sahlen's Stadium on Sunday night after their 2-0 win over the last-place Atlanta Beat. Players danced on the field, celebrating during a postgame fireworks show, and hundreds of girls among the crowd of 5,702 screamed at them for autographs as music swept across the stadium.

The Flash hope to hoist a bigger trophy and host a better postgame party in the same spot on Saturday, Aug. 27.

A 2-1 win by Abby Wambach's magicJack club over Philadelphia in a match that ended late in the first half of the Flash-Atlanta game actually clinched the ...